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Lacan, Jacques. 1949. The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience, a lecture delivered at the 16th International Congress of Psychoanalysis, Zurich, 17 July, 1949.

Koschorke, Albrecht, Susanne Lüdemann, Thomas Frank, and Ethel Matala de Mazza. 2007. Der fiktive Staat: Konstruktionen des politischen Körpers in der Geschichte Europas. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer.

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Alexander, Jeffrey C., and Philip Smith. 1996. Social Science and Salvation. Risk Society as Mythical Discourse. Zeitschrift für Soziologie 25(4):251–262. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfsoz-1996-0401. Marcus, George E. (1995-04-01). Technoscientific Imaginaries: Conversations, Profiles, and Memoirs. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226504445. Then there is Taylor’s chapter on the creativity of discourse, where the imagination is constantly invoked sotto vo Binder, Werner. 2010. Violence, Communication and Imagination. Pre-modern, Totalitarian and Liberal-Democratic Torture. In Totalitarian Communication. Hierarchies, Codes and Messages, ed. Kirill Postoutenko, 217–247. Bielefeld: transcript. As one would expect, other debates have occurred in connection with Taylor’s use “transcendence” as part of the theoretical tools for his narrative, which I am not mentioning because they fall beyond the scope of my study.

Kantorowicz, Ernst H. 1957. The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Alexander, Jeffrey C., and Philip Smith. 2003. The Strong Program in Cultural Sociology. Elements of a Structural Hermeneutics. In The Meanings of Social Life. A Cultural Sociology, ed. Jeffrey C. Alexander, 11–26. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Anderson, Benedict R. 2006. Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso.

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Alexander, Jeffrey C. 2011b. The Performative Revolution in Egypt. An Essay in Cultural Power. London/New York: Bloomsbury Academic. The International Journal of Social Imaginaries thus reflects on questions of contemporary politics and the political, including in relation to the economic. The recent trend in civic disengagement in the context of the rise of ideologies of neo-liberalism have masked the profound crisis that now affects Western modernity in its specific relationship to the natural world. The theoretical response to this exhaustion of the central imaginary significations of modernity has failed to articulate the full significance of the crisis, counter the loss of collective vision, and inspire a new political imaginary. There is thus an urgent need to find new theoretical approaches and interpretative frameworks that can re-assert the capacity of human societies for political autonomy and at the same time conceptualize its fundamental connection to the natural world. Koschorke, Albrecht. 2004. Codes und Narrative. Überlegungen zur Poetik der funktionalen Differenzierung. In Grenzen der Germanistik. Rephilologisierung oder Erweiterung? DFG-Symposion 2003, ed. Walter Erhart, 174–185. Stuttgart/Weimar: Metzler.